Jason McLure

Jason McLure was Bloomberg News correspondent in Ethiopia from 2007 to 2010.

It would be hard to find a better symbol of media repression
in Africa than Eskinder Nega. The veteran Ethiopian journalist and dissident
blogger has been detained at least seven times by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's
government over the past two decades, and was put back in
jail on September 14, 2011, after he published a column calling for the
government to respect freedom of speech and freedom of assembly and to end
torture in prisons.